Shared Commitment to Scholarship....

The Distinguished Scholar Series is a longstanding tradition in the Department of History and Political Science. Each year during the spring semester we invite scholars of recognized distinction to present their latest research to Saint Rose students and faculty. The lectures are free and open to the public. Below are some of the luminaries who have graciously shared their work with us in recent years.

2010-11, George Lovell, University of Washington
"In Defense of Extravagant Rights Talk"
Dr. Lovell received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1997 and is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. 

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
7 pm Standish Rooms 1 & 2

2009-2010, Lisa Aubrey, Arizona State University
"Africa, Diaspora, and Development in the 21st Century"

Dr. Lisa Aubrey is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and Political Science at Arizona State University. She is a former Senior Fubright Scholar at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she remains active in community and development work. Dr. Aubrey is also the Executive Director of the Center for African and Diasporic Affairs (CADA) in Accra, Ghana. She is the author of The Politics of Development Cooperation: NGOs, Gender, and Partnership in Kenya (Routledge, 1997), has published numerous journal articles and is currently workrking on a book manuscript on diaspora, repatriation, and co-development.

Thursday, April 22nd at 7pm
Touhey Forum

2008-2009, Iona Man-Cheong, State University of New York, Stony Brook
“Macau: An Early Modern Cosmopolis”
Dr. Iona Man-Cheong
Associate Professor of History
Stony Brook University

Thursday, March 19 at 7pm
St. Joseph's Auditorium

Dr. Iona Man-Cheong is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University. A scholar of late imperial China, Dr. Man-Cheong’s interests include the Chinese diaspora and cultural encounters between Chinese emigrants and Londoners, and the writings of female Chinese poets. Her book, The Class of 1761: Examinations, State, and Elites was published by Stanford University Press in 2004, and her poetry translations have been published by New Directions Press and Stanford University Press. Dr. Man-Cheong has also published in Social History, Radical History Review, and The Journal for Late Imperial China. She is currently working on cross-cultural contacts in late eighteenth-century London and Macau.

2007-2008 Marc Petracca, University of California, Irvine
The Department of History and Political Science presents:
“Can God be a Causal Variable
in the Teaching of American Politics?”

Mark P. Petracca is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of California,
Irvine. In addition to publications in academic journals, he is co-author of The American Presidency and The Logic of
California Politics (forthcoming), and editor of The Politics of Interests. He is the recipient of numerous teaching
awards, including the "Excellence in Mentoring Award" from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science
Association. Dr. Petracca is active in national and local politics; he has delivered congressional testimony to subcommittees
on the Constitution on multiple occasions and served on several local committees, including planning, housing,
campaign finance, and library committees. He is currently an expert witness for the University of California in the federal
matter of Association of Christian Schools International v. Stearns, et. al.
Thursday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
St. Joseph’s Auditorium
Free and open to the public

2006-2007, Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
The Department of History and Political Science and The Center for Citizenship Race and Ethnicity Studies (CREST) present:
Professor Kathleen Wilson
“The Performance of Freedom: Maroons and the Colonial Order in 18th Century Jamaica”
Thursday, March 15th 7:30 p.m.
St. Joseph’s Auditorium
Admission: Free and open to the public

Kathleen Wilson is Professor of History and Cultural Studies at SUNY Stony Brook and currently completing a Senior Research Fellowship at Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She is a leading scholar in the field of 18th century Britain and the British Empire, whose recent books include The Island Race: Englishness, Gender and Empire in the 18th Century (Routledge, 2003) and an edited volume entitled The New Imperial History: Culture and Identity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 (Cambridge, 2004). She is presently working on two books: The Colonial Stage: Theatre, Culture and Modernity in the English Provinces, 1720-1840 (2007) for Yale Univ. Press and Rethinking the Colonial State: Gender and Governmentality in the Long Eighteenth Century (2007-08) for Cambridge Univ Press. Dr. Wilson is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. She is an elected Fellow of the UK Royal Historical Society and John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellow for 2001-2002. Her book, The Sense of the People won both the Whitfield prize for British History (1995) from the Royal Historical Society and the John Ben Snow Award (1996) of the North American Conference on British Studies.